Detachable garment-clasp



N0. 688,0l7. Patented Dec, 3,1901,

AfA. HENSHAW.

DETACHABLE GARMENT CLASP.

(Application filed Fab. 6, 1901.)

(No Model.)

W1 TNESSES [N VEN TOR.

am: Noam PETERS no, mqromuou WASHNGTON, n c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ASSIGNMENTS, TO WILLIAM J.

REED, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DETACHABLE GARM ENT-CLAS P.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 688,017, dated December3, 1901. Application filed February 6 1901. Serial No. 46,] 84s (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, ABBIE A. HENSHAW, a citizen of the United States,residing at Danville, in the county of Vermilion and State of Illinois,have invented a certain new and useful DetachableGarment-Clasp, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to means for easily and firmly fastening togetherseparate articles of wearing-apparel or difierent parts of the samearticle of wearing-apparel; and the object of my invention is to providean easily attached and detached fastening which will serve to firmlyhold together the garments or parts of the same garment, at the sametime permitting easy separation of the parts so held when desiredwithout removing the clasp or fastening itself.

In a general way my invention consists in a clasp comprising 'twomembers, one being a hook of particular construction, to which a lockingor safety pin is rigidly and suitably attached, and the other memberconsisting of an eye or loop for engagement by said hook, said eye orloop being also rigidly and suitably attached to a locking or safetypin; and my invention further consists in the various details ofconstruction and in combinations of parts, all as hereinafter described,and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The invention will be more readily understood by reference to theaccompanying draw-- ings, forming a part of this specification, and inwhich-- Figure 1 is a view of the two members in combination. Fig. 2 isa view of the opposite side of the hook member from that shown inFig. 1. Fig. 3 is a View of the opposite side of the eye member fromthat shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a central section of the hook member onthe line m a: of Fig. 2.

In the drawings the numeral 2 represents a brace and guard-plate,consisting of a thin elongated strip of metal with one slightly concaveand one slightly convex side or edge and rounded ends to prevent wearingor'tearing of the material to which the clasp may be attached. Theconcave and convex sides of the guard-plate serve definite purposes. Theupper side of the plate is made convex in ortremity 4:, preferablyrounded.

der to afford easy and ready access to the pin in clasping andunclasping the same. The

under side of said plate is made concave in order to avoid abruptcorners or angles in the plate, and thus subject the garment toliability of being torn, and to prevent weakening the plate at the baseof the hook when the blank is cut by the die. The convex side or edge ofthe plate 2 is provided with a latorally-extending portion,substantially triangular in shape and bent upon itself to form the hook3, with a comparatively narrow ex- I also prefer to construct this hookwith the dent or notch 5 at its extremity or near the same, which willtend to retain the hook and eye in engagement except when it is desiredto disengage the same.

The blank from which the guard-plate of the hook member is made has foursmall projections or ears, two of which are located on the convex sideof the plate and are bent or looped over to form the rigid fasteners 6and 7 Another projection, preferably at one extremity of the plate,forms the link 8, and the fourth projection is bent into the U-shapedcatch and guard 9, located at the other extremity of said plate. A wire10 is firmly clasped by the fasteners 6 and 7, preferably double-loopedthrough the link 8, and terminates in a sharp point adapted to beengaged by the U-shaped catch and guard 9.

The eye member consists of an ordinary safety-pin, to the fixed portionof the wire of which is rigidly attached a thin metal plate 11,preferably having the outline shown and provided with the longitudinalslot 12,througl1 which the hook 3 is adapted to pass. I have shown thepin and plate firmly connected by looping and compressing the end of theplate around the wire of the pin, and as a preferable construction Iprovide the pin with a laterally-extending bend 13 in the fixed portionof the wire thereof, the plate 11 being mounted upon this bent portionof the wire to insure perfect rigidity.

1 am aware that a few somewhat similar de vices are now being usedintended to serve much the same purpose as the inventionde= scribedherein, some having both hook and eye members made each from a singlewire, but it is held that none of them possess the peculiar advantagesof the construction shown.

Having thus described my invention, I claimas new and desire to secureby Letters Patent i 1. A detachable garment-clasp comprising twomembers, a hook member consisting of an elongated guard-plate having oneslightly concave and one slightly convex side and rounded ends, saidguard-plate having a laterally-extending portion upon the convex sidethereof bent upon itself to form a hook, and an eye membenconsisting ofa plate with a longitudinal slot therein adapted to be engaged by saidhook, each of said members heing rigidly attached to a looking or safetypin,

substantially as described.

dinary safety-pin, substantially as described.

3. A detachable garment-clasp comprising a hook member consisting of anelongated guard-plate, having one slightly concave and one slightlyconvex side and rounded ends,

and having a laterallyextended portion upon convex side thereof bentupon itself to form a hook, and an eye member consisting of a plate Witha longitudinal slot therein adapted to be engaged by said hook, saidguard-plate being provided with the fasteners for clasping, the link forguiding, andthe U-shaped catch for looking a looped-Wire pin, and saideye member-being rigidly attached to the fixed portion of the Wire of anordinary safety-pin.

4. A detachable garment-clasp comprising a hook member and eye member,said hook member consisting of a guard-plate with a laterally-extending,substantially triangular shaped. portion bent upon itself to form ahook, and notched at the extremity thereof, and said eye memberconsisting of a plate having longitudinal slot therein, said guardplatebeing provided with the fasteners for clasping, the link for guiding,and the U- shaped catch for locking a looped-Wire pin, and said eyemember being rigidly attached to the fixed portion of the Wire of anordinary safetypin, said Wire being laterally bent Where engaged by theeye-plate to more firmly hold the samein place.

In testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto snbscribed my name,this-3lst day of January, 1901, in the presence of two Witnesses.

ABBIE A. I-IENSHAW. Witnesses:

A. F. GRAHAM, N. B. RAYMOND.

